Finally, the third day had arrived, but a dense knot had grown in the pit of Renita's stomach. She's stayed in the village just as the Hokage ordered, but her residence could still have been declined. Still, she picked herself up off the floor of the abandoned building she had decided to call home, and checked to see if her bandages had dried. It had been raining the night before and she had been unlucky enough to be caught in the spontaneous downfall. Renita patted the bandages which were hanging over a set of rafters, and thankfully they were dry. She wasn't game enough to walk out on the open with her face exposed or her arm either, so silently she thanked the heavens for sparing her a stroke of luck. She then wrapped herself up delicately until she was again laden up in bandages, and she threw her tunic and pants over her skimpishly dressed body and poked her head out the door. It was a clear crisp morning, with a small amount of dew still clinging to the nearby grass and foliage, so she set off towards the Hokage's office, her heart beginning to drum its own personal solo in her chest.
She rapped her knuckles against the solid surface of the door three time, and the familiar voice of the Hokage issued the invite to come in. Taking a deep breath to steady herself, Renita entered the office with her head held high and a straight posture, though any ounce of confidence she showed was a mask only, because inside she shaking from head to toe on the inside.
'So' Tsunade began, sitting on the edge of her desk, in a more relaxed position 'I've considered your request and- (Renita swallowed) I've decided to accept you into our village' (Renita's heart skipped a beat at this point).
'T-thankyou so much, Lady Hokage!'
'But I need to ask you something first'
Fear washed over Renita's insides and a fierce cold gripped her organs. What on earth could she want to know? Unless…
'You asked to join the military force' Tsunade continued 'so I need to see your capabilities. Show me what you can do.'
'Well-' stammered Renita 'the thing is (Tsunade's eyebrows arced once again) I need an object or something to really show you…what I'm capable of'
'Would a shadow clone work?'
Renita contemplated this for a moment…surely it would work?
'Yes. I believe It should'
'Very well, then show me everything' Tsunade said, standing up from the table and preparing herself.
Renita took the hint, and unravelled the bandages on both her face and her arm.
'Ready?'
'Yes' was Renita's reply, settling into a fighting stance.
'Shadow clone jutsu!'

It was the first time he had seen her, but it still somewhat irritated Kakashi nonetheless. He had only just gotten this one lady over her fascination with him, and now there was another girl waltzing about the streets wearing her forehead protector precariously tipped on her left eye. He was thankful she didn't have a mask to match it as well, though. He thought about interjecting and stopping this blatant mimic of his, but hesitated as it would more than likely result in an onslaught of fan-girl affection he neither wanted nor needed. Still, he hadn't ever seen her before, but she was apparently either a chuunin or a jōnin of the village. She had brunette hair which began in layers and then fell like gossamer to mid-length down her back, and he wondered why her left arm was bandaged. In any case, something intrigued Kakashi enough to stop him from reading his Icha Icha Paradisu book, even if she was probably another 'love interest' of his. He realised that he had been staring at this girl for a good seven minutes, and the worst thing was that she had seen him out the corner of her eye as she decided to look at one of the many stalls which lined the streets. Quickly peering back down to his book, he blushed a rose pink across hischeek bones and pretended to be absorbed in his book.
'Smooth Kakashi'he thought to himself, annoyed at his lack of stealth in which he was normally freakishly good at. Except the bigger problem remained; he simply couldn't keep his eyes off her.

Since it had already been an arduous morning, Renita was feeling pretty drained of any energy, yet on the inside she glowed. Lady Tsunade had not only granted her request, but also stated that she was of a jōnin level in combat. Renita proudly wore her high collared khaki vest and navy top and pants ensemble, except she had ripped off the left sleeve and kept her arm exposed, bandages and all. Since the morning duel in the Hokage's office, she couldn't help but feel like she had really frightened her and her apprentice. She couldn't blame them, because if she was faced against her jutsu, she would also panic.
Renita had to admit that the weirdest part of the day definitely belonged to when she was stared at by this mysterious chuunin or jōnin. The thing that caught her attention was the way he had his forehead protector tipped over his left eye in the same way she now wore hers (she had to thank Tsunade for this, even though she commented that she would be 'another Kakashi', whatever that meant) to hide the part of her face that she so desperately fought to conceal. This ninja had fluffy white hair which slanted off to the left, and a mask to accompany his forehead protector. The way he walked so casually kept making Renita steal glances at him. She was surprised how well he navigated his track and read his book at the same time. Still, she had no time to wonder about him because she needed to train, and the forests which dotted around the village called to her with an enticing invitation.
She walked to the gate and took a deep breath of air before stepping out into the open. She entered this village as a sound ninja, and now she was beginning her life as a leaf ninja. It felt good to be a shinobi now, and to not be feared by others. As she walked calmly out of the gates into the emerald light of the forest, she heard a soft rustling in a nearby bush, but she knew that training was far more important at this time. Renita began to run, the cool breeze whipping at her face like a gentle slap, and pushing her fringe out from her face. She kept running until she came to a clearing where a soft trickling could be heard somewhere close. The clearing was by a cliff, and below was where the stream was, flowing freely at its own will.
She started to stretch, releasing a lot of pent up stress from her muscles. Again, through a 'salute to the sun' yoga pose, was a rustling and this time Renita paused, listening closely for any more suspicious activity.
Silence.
'You're overreacting' she told herself, finishing her pose and preparing for a fighting stance 'It's a new home and you have to get used to the sounds of it all.' She collected five shuriken from her kunai pouch and located a sturdy tree to aim for. She threw them into the air: one, two, three, four and five, and then focused her chakra to build up in her left arm. As quick as lightning, she threw her right arm over to the bandages and ripped them loose, exposing deep ridges gashed into her flesh and bone. She brought her arm across her face, in a parallel line, and one by one, pulsed sound waves from the gashes embedded in her arm at the shuriken. The ninja tools blades glistened in a menacing manner from the shafts of sunlight as they whipped into the tree with a force that split the bark so easily. They were stock still in the bark, in a perfectly vertical line. She smiled and flexed her arm out of its position, because she hadn't lost any of her aim, it seemed.
For an hour, she had lanced every tree in the vicinity, and she hadn't moved an inch off of her original position, but rather revolving on the spot. She had barely broken a sweat, but she gathered all of her ninja equipment from their resting places. It was a small glint of silver that caught her eye at the seventeenth tree that distracted her from her current task. A bracelet, silver and delicate, lay caught over a slim branch on a leafy bush. Renita plucked the bracelet off its branch, and held it flat in the palms of her hands, which were spread out like a butterfly's wings. It was beautiful, with a thin engraving of a vine covered in leaves etched into every link, and one simple word engraved in a curly script on the long clasped which folded over to a catch on the end.
'Mother'.
Thinking that it would be a wise idea to hand it into the gate-keepers afterwards, she tucked it into a pocket on the inside of her vest, and pushed the thought of it aside to continue training.
She walked to the edge of the cliff and looked below at the river gently flowing and sparkling under the afternoon sun. Wrapping her bandages small enough to tuck inside her vest, she then took a deep breath, turned around and lined her heels up against the rough edges of the cliff. A gentle wind blew against her back and made her long hair flow past her face. She kept her eyes closed, and enjoyed the serenity of the moment.
She fell back into the wind.
She kept her eyes shut, but she immediately felt the change from the gentle breeze to a rushing wind forcefully pushing both against and past her. The sound of trickling water seemed to grow into a roar of water but she didn't flinch. Renita simply raised her arm to the parallel position again, the difference being that she was upside down and rushing headfirst into a river below, unaware of the depth of it all or how close she really was. She counted another two seconds before letting a powerful stream of sound waves fly past her face and parted the water's edge into a crescent. The sound waves reverberated from the water and back up to her body, pushing her up so she was simply suspended above the water.
Again there was the rustling, but it was so much louder and it broke Renita's concentration and in turn, stopping the balanced chakra flow to her arm. Now her eyes snapped open, and she began to panic, because she was aware of how close she really was to the river. Quickly, she calmed herself down and brought her hands together in a 'T' shape while flipping up the right way.
'Shadow clone jutsu!'
Two more identical Renita's appeared at the water's surface, using their chakra to keep them above the water with their hands braced together, wrist upon forearm. Renita bent her legs and landed on the shadow clones' brace, and they flipped her over to the river bank, where she landed , but overbalanced and fell roughly to the ground, breathing heavily. A small 'pwoof' was heard and the clones disappeared in a puff of smoke. She lay there panting, her heart rushing but then she remembered why that just happened.
Clearly someone was following her…

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